Arcadian for a boy?

[Fishpond]

Yes, no, maybe, only in fantasies?

Was watching a film last night with this in and thought it has a lovely sound.

Any name starting with Ar risks sounding like Our. As in Our Kadyen. He'll end up spelling and / or explaining his name all his life. I would consider something a bit more mainstream (but I like really dull classic names for boys so just my opinion).

I also know a ton of Alexanders and Alexs, but there's a happy medium between Alex and Arcadian.

Lots of nature names are bound to be unusual (Heath, Sage), lots of ancient saints' names (Dunstone, Wulfric), and there are names that were popular in the 50s to the 70s (Ray, Roy, Leroy, Malcolm, Derek, Simon, Colin) that are still not cool again.

I know loads of Alexanders, Sebastians and Matthews too! Personally I don't have a problem with popular names if I love the names, but a lot of other people do which is fair enough. I have never heard of the name Arcadian but to be honest I much prefer it to many of the other names that come up on this board!

It's a perfectly nice sounding word but it's not a name. www.thefreedictionary.com/Arcadian

Personally I find it difficult to understand why so many people want to call their children random words rather than real names. I have a very unusual name (never met another) but it is recognisably a name. I can't imagine it would be very easy to have a name where the frequent reaction is going to be confusion, but given the strange array of names in use now perhaps that's not an issue anymore.

You could have Cajun as a nickname.

But no. This is not a serious suggestion. Just no.

Nooooooo

Et in Arcadia ego.

Has the world gone mad? What happened to the lovely normal names?

If you're happy for him to be mocked, then yes, fine. And before anybody states it won't happen - of course it will. Parents judge as well. So many people nowadays seem to want to show how 'clever', 'wacky' or 'inventive' they are. All it shows is a lack of forethought for what the poor child will have to go through.